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How Can We Write Better Histories of Communism?

Labour, 2019-03, Vol.83 (83), p.199-232 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    How Can We Write Better Histories of Communism?
  • Author: Palmer, Bryan D.
  • Subjects: Analysis ; Canada ; Communism ; Communist parties ; Criminalization ; Historians ; Historiography ; History ; Militancy ; Political parties ; PRESENTATION / PRÉSENTATION ; Scholarships ; Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich (1879-1953) ; Stalinism ; United Kingdom ; United States ; Writing
  • Is Part Of: Labour, 2019-03, Vol.83 (83), p.199-232
  • Description: [...]Ron Verzuh revisits a chapter in the Cold War history of Canadian trade unionism, offering a detailed look at how a 1950–52 United Steel Workers of America raid on the Communist-led Local 480 of the International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union polarized and transformed Trail, British Columbia.1 All of these essays make important contributions. To fully explore the issues of policy, institutional power, and international developments evident in the Comintern's role as a guiding hand of revolutionary activism and the infinitely complex and endlessly proliferating stories and struggles comprising local, regional, and national Communist experience is a tall order. [...]precisely how these related spheres are explored entails different methods and sources, all of which demand the mastery of difficult research strategies and conceptual literatures. Mainstream Canadian culture and politics certainly did not disassociate homegrown Communist militants and their Soviet association. [...]Moscow-aligned leftists considered themselves not only residents of Welland, immigrants from Poland, trade union activists and leaders, or citizens of Canada, but also, on occasion, as internationalists with loyalties to the Soviet Union, even to Stalin.62 "When Stalin died," recalled the Winnipeg Communist Clara Zuken, "do you know what? I cried. Because they focus on particulars and offer interpretation based on discrete aspects of Canadian Communism, however, they come to no overall conclusion with respect to the dichotomous historiography.
  • Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0700-3862
    EISSN: 1911-4842
    DOI: 10.1353/llt.2019.0008
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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